Temperate Vegetables (1+1)

POTATO

VARIETIES

Cultivars recommended in different parts of India

Early Varieties (ready in 70-80 days	Main season varieties (ready in 90-95 days)	Late Varieties
Kufri Ashoka	Kufri Jyoti	K. Jeevan
K. Chandermukhi	K. Sutlej	K. Neelamani
Kufri Jawahar	K. Pukhraj, K. Megha	K. Khasigaro
Kufri Lauvkar	K. Badshah, Kufri Anand	K. Naveen
	Kufri Bahar, K. Sadabahar
	K. Deva, K. Sherpa, K. Swarna
	Red coloured: Kufri Sindhuri, Kufri Lalima

FOR PROCESSING: Kufri Chipsona-1, Kufri Chipsona-2, Kufri Chipsona-3, Kufri Himsona.

Descriptions of the important commercial varieties of potatoes are given here under:

Kufri Chandramukhi

• Early maturing (matures 10 days earlier than Up to Date) with attractive oval white tubers. It degenerates slowly and keeps well in storage.
• It gives high yields (higher than Up to Date), cooks easily and does not degenerate rapidly in the plains.

Kufri Chamatkar:

• An early bulking variety (110-120 days) with uniform sized, shining and smooth tubers suitable for cultivation in Punjab, Haryana, UP and MP

Kufri Jyoti

• Tubers of this variety are large oval, flattened, white skinned, eyes flat and flesh dull white.
• A widely adaptable, possessing a high degree of field resistance to late blight disease in the foliage and also a good degree of tuber resistance to the same disease.
• It is also resistant to the wart and moderately resistant to Cercospora leaf spot.
• It is recommended for Himachal Pradesh and Kumaun hills of Uttarakhand.

Kufri Lalima

• Tubers are medium in size, shape round, skin red, eyes medium deep and white flesh.
• It is medium maturing and moderate resistant to early bright.
• It is suitable for cultivation in north Indian plains and is replacing ‘Kufri Sindhuri’.

Kufri Neelmani

• Suited for the Nilgiri hills in the South.
• It has given 100 per cent more yield than the variety ‘Great Scot’, which has long been popular in the Nilgiri hills.

Kufri Red

• It is the selection from Darjeeling Red Round isolated and developed by the Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla.
• It is superior in yield and quality of tubers to Darjeeling Red Round.
• It has substituted Darjeeling Red Round on a large scale in U P, Bihar and Punjab.

Kufri Safed

• A new improved disease free clone of Phulwa and Kufri Safed
• The clone resembles Phulwa in most of its morphological features except that the leaves are slightly bigger.
• This variety yields on an average 25 per cent more than Phulwa.

Kufri Sindhuri

• Medium maturing (31/2 to 41/2 months) with round, light red and medium sized tubers.
• It is suitable for cultivation as a main crop variety in the plains, as replacements to Kufri Red and other late varieties.

Kufri Swarna:

• A medium maturing (130-135 days in summer and 100-110 days in autumn) variety producing tall, erect, compact and vigorous plants with white flowers.
• The tubers are medium-large, white, round-oval with fleet eyes and unlike Kufri Jyoti do not show cracking.
• The variety is moderately resistant to late blight and cyst nematodes and heavy yielder (average yields 25-30 t/ha). Suitable for cultivation in South Indian hills.

Kufri Giriraj:

• A medium maturing (130-135 days) variety, tubers are medium to large, white, oval, with fleet eyes.
• The variety is field resistant to late blight with average yields of 25-30 t/ha. Suitable for cultivation in North Indian hills.

Kufri Chipsona-1:

• A medium maturing (100-110 days) variety producing medium to tall, semi-erect, compact, vigorous plants with white flowers.
• The tubers are medium to large, oval, white with fleet eyes.
• The variety possesses resistance to late blight and is suitable both for preparation of chips and French fries and on an average yields 35-38 t/ha.
• Suitable for cultivation in North Indian plains.

Kufri Chipsona-2:

• A medium maturing (100-110 days) variety producing medium tall, erect, open, plants with white flowers.
• The tubers are medium to large, round, white with fleet eyes.
• The variety possesses resistance to late blight and tolerance to frost, suitable for preparation of chips and on an average yields 32-35 t/ha. Suitable for cultivation in North Indian plains.

Kufri Chipsona-3:

• A medium maturing (100-110 days) variety producing tall, erect, vigorous, semi-compact plants with white flowers.
• The tubers are round-oval, medium and white with fleet eyes.
• The variety possesses field resistance to late blight, moderate field resistance to Phoma, early blight, mosaic, severe mosaic and leaf roll.
• The tubers have high dry matter, negligible glycol-alkaloid content and comparatively good protein content, suitable for preparation of chips and on an average yields 32-35 t/ha. Suitable for cultivation in North Indian plains.

Kufri Surya:

• An early maturing (75-90 days) variety producing medium tall, erect, semi-compact, vigorous plants having light red purple flowers with shy flowering.
• Tubers are medium-large, oblong, white, smooth, shallow eyes with pale yellow flesh.
• It is tolerant to heat and can be grown in areas having night temperature above 20ºC and
• It is resistant to hopper and do possesses some resistance to mite and late blight.
• Average yield is 35-40 t/ha and suitable for cultivation in North Indian plains and Peninsular India.

Kufri Himalini:

• A medium maturing (110-120 days) variety producing medium-tall, semi-erect, vigorous, semi-compact plants with light purple flowers.
• The tubers are medium, oval-oblong, white, smooth, shallow eyes with pale yellow flesh.
• The variety possesses field resistance to late blight in foliage and moderate resistance in tubers.
• The variety on an average yields 27-30 t/ha. Suitable for cultivation in North western and north eastern hills.

Kufri Himsona:

• A medium maturing (120-140 days) variety producing open, medium, thin stems with flowers primarily purple/ intense purple with white tip on both sides.
• The tubers are medium, round-oval, white, smooth, shallow eyes with cream pale yellow flesh.
• It is the 1st high dry matter, low reducing sugar and late blight resistant potato variety for HP hills.
• The variety on an average yields 20-25 t/ha. Suitable for cultivation in North Indian hills.

Kufri Girdhari:

• A medium maturing (110-120 days) variety producing medium-tall, semi-erect, vigorous, semi-compact plants with white flowers.
• The tubers are medium, oval-oblong, white, smooth, shallow eyes with pale yellow flesh.
• The variety possesses high level of field resistance to late blight in foliage and tubers.
• The variety on an average yields 27-30 t/ha. Suitable for cultivation in hills.

TPS Population 92-PT- 27:

• Developed by Central Potato Research Institute in 2007. True potato seeds (botanical seeds) are produced through conventional hybridization.
• Uniform and high yielding TPS population with resistance to late blight.
• Both parents flower under short days in the plains.
• Suitable for cultivation in eastern region.